Captain Ga’len was relaxing in his quarters. His ship, The Bleeding Rose, has faired well over the past few months. His crew, even more so. Having recently returned to the ranks as a pirate for TRAPS, there have been many battles, many explosions and much loot. Yarr.
As Ga’len lazily recollects the most recent battle, an alarm begins to blare. “RED ALERT, RED ALERT, CORPORATE WAR TARGETS ENGAGED!!
As Captain Ga’len arrives on the bridge and steps back into his capsule, Mr. Jemelson sets a course for Ebtesham and looks to his captain.
“Jemelson, go ahead and engage. What is going on?” Asks Ga’len.
“Sir, we have received word from Captian Ceekt that he has engaged members of our mark, Veyr”
Ga’len thinks to himself, “So, it has begun at last. We have found them”.
“ALL CREW TO BATTLE STATIONS, LOAD ALL WEAPONS, READY ALL DRONES,” the order rumbles throughout the ship. Shaking to the core, each member of the crew holds at their stations as the warp engines push the ship harder and faster than before.
“Ceekt must either be in trouble, which is highly unlikely, or he has found a bunch of juicy targets captain”, Ceres excitedly remarks as she readies the ships guns for the wonderful dance she so loves.
A few moments later, The Bleeding Rose drops out of warp to find 3 battleships staring her in the face. A Raven, Hyperion and a Abaddon.
“Wonderful, we have a fight on our hands, “Captain Ga’len shouts as Captain Ceekt welcomes everyone over the comms.
“This is Captain Ceekt, we have 3 targets, lock weapons and open fire, the abaddon is the primary target”.
Ceres dutifully and with much glee, locks turrets on the abaddon and releases the swarm of drones.
BOOM!!! “Captain, we are taking heavy fire from all three targets, shields are failing, we are entering armor!!!!”
Captain Ga’len raises his eyebrows in surprise. “Well, that was fast, thank you Mr. Hamlin, ensure that your damage control teams remain as safe as possible as they work to contain the damage. Ceres, continue firing all weapons. Mr. Jemelson, come to heading 090, mark 26. Increase speed to full.”
The gang presses on, unleashing volley after volley of turret fire into the abaddon and then, after what seems an eternity, the viewer flashes with a bright light as their prey falls victim to the onslaught
“WELL DONE!!!!”, thunders a voice over the comms. Captain Ceekt is pleased that one of our targets has been dispatched. “Warp scramble the Hyperion and the Raven, Raven is now the primary, lock all weapons and fire!!!”
Ceres gets an evil grin on her face, “Sir, there is a 4th ship here now, a frigate. Shall we dispatch with it quickly?”
“Yes, why not”, Captain Ga’len remarks, “Captain Ceekt, that frigate off your starboard bow, it looks ‘menancing’. Why don’t we take it first?” As soon as the suggestion is made, it seems that the weapons officers for Captains Ga’len and Ceekt took that discussion as an order, for that poor ship did not last long.
“Uh, Captain Ga’len, can we get back to the Hyperion now?”
“Yes Captain Ceekt, I think we can. Let’s finish that dog!!!”, Captain Ga’len yells. “Mr. Jemelson, close distance to that ship!! “Ceres, lock weapons and…oh well…you know what to do!!!”
As the torrent of weapons fire pours into their next victim, the shields, armor and hull quickly evaporate into fireballs and gasses. Space is getting a good feeding today. Their enemies return fire does some damage, but it’s far too late for them.
Three down, one more to go. Captain Ceekt and his gang make short work of the Raven, it lasts almost as long as the frigate lasted. Almost, but the resulting explosion was a sight to see. Not much was left of that ship.
“Well done all!!! Collect the loot and depart from the system immediately. Meet up at m1 Kal in TMP, we will divide up the loot!!!”
Captain Ga’len has a wonderful smile on his face. “Captain Ceekt, acknowledged. See you there!!!”
Thoughts of riches from the full loads in their cargo holds fill the various crews and captains of this gang. They have done well. They have dealt a serious blow to their enemy. They have taken the day.
"There are bold pirates and there are old pirates, but there are few old, bold pirates"
